Carex aggregata Mackenzie (Q468)

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Carex aggregata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin
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Carex aggregata Mackenzie
Carex aggregata is a taxon with the rank species within the section Carex sect. Phaestoglochin

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    taxon/id/Carex aggregata Mackenzie
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    Carex aggregata Mackenzie
    Carex aggregata
    Mackenzie
    FNA Editorial Committee. 2002. Flora of North America north of Mexico. Volume 23: Cyperaceae. Oxford University Press, New York.
    accepted
    carex aggloméré (French)
    smooth clustered sedge (English)
    glomerate sedge (English)
    crowded sedge (English)
    1 reference
    Newmaster, S.G. & S. Ragupathy. 2005. Flora Ontario - Integrated Botanical Information System (FOIBIS), Phase I. University of Guelph, Canada. http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis http://www.uoguelph.ca/foibis/
    meadows
    thickets
    open forests
    calcareous soils
    Plants without conspicuous rhizomes.
    Culms (20–) 30–100 cm, 1.5–3.5 mm wide basally, 0.7–1.2 mm wide distally.
    Leaves: sheaths usually loose, proximal green-and-white-striped and green-and-white-mottled, with conspicous transverse veins on back, fronts white to hyaline, sometimes red dotted and transversely rugose, yellow or brown and thickened at mouth;
    ligules 1–4.5 mm, shorter than to as long as wide;
    widest leaf-blades 3.5–5 mm wide.
    Inflorescences with 5–10 spikes, (1.5–) 2–5 cm × 8–13 mm;
    proximal bracts to 3 cm;
    spikes with 5–15 ascending to spreading perigynia.
    Pistillate scales hyaline or pale-brown with green, 1–3-veined center, ovate, 2.2–3.5 × 1.2–1.8 mm, body 2/3 as long to almost length of perigynia, apex acuminate to short-awned.
    Anthers 1.5–2.5 mm.
    Perigynia pale green to pale-brown, veinless or weakly 2–5-veined abaxially, 3.4–4.6 × 1.9–2.8 mm, body somewhat spongy, thickened at base, margins serrulate distally;
    beak 0.7–1.4 mm, apical teeth 0.3–1 mm.
    Achenes circular to elliptic-circular, 1.8–2.1 × 1.6–1.8 mm.